After copping Golden Globe, Independent Spirit, New York Film Critics and National Society of Film Critics awards for Longtime Companion, other gay-themed films welcomed his presence, including The Cure and It's My Party. But it was not until he was cast in and earned a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for the groundbreaking gay drama Longtime Companion that his film career revitalized. Other notable films from this period include, Kiss My Grits, Crimes of Passion, Spies Like Us and The Ladies Club.
On TV, he starred in mini-movie productions of “Mourning Becomes Electra,” “Deadman's Curve” (portraying Dean Torrence of the surf-era pop duo Jan and Dean) and “Summer of My German Soldier,” co-starring Kristy McNichol.ĭuring the 1980s, Davison took over the role of the severely deformed John Merrick as The Elephant Man on Broadway portrayed Clarence in Richard III at the New York Shakespeare Festival was directed by Henry Fonda in The Caine Mutiny Court Martial played a moving Tom Wingfield opposite Jessica Tandy's Amanda in The Glass Menagerie received a second Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for his work in the AIDS play The Normal Heart and finished off the decade gathering up fine reviews in the amusing A.R. In 1977, he won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for his work in Streamers.
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Davison also earned theatrical roles in The Skin of Our Teeth, The Little Foxes and A Life in the Theatre. Other notable films include the musical film version of Mame, The Jerusalem File, Mother, Jugs & Speed, Grand Jury and Brass Target. Moving further into the ’70s, Davison had strong roles alongside greats like Burt Lancaster in the well-made cavalry film, Ulzana's Raid, and the powerful independent film, Short Eyes. Following this, he was awarded a starring role opposite Kim Darby in The Strawberry Statement, an offbeat social commentary about ’60s college radicalism, and in the cult horror flick Willard in which he bonded notoriously with a herd of rats. Success in the movies came immediately for Davison after he and a trio of up-and-coming talents (Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas and Catherine Burns) starred together in the poignant but disturbing coming-of-age film Last Summer. The following year, he was seen off-Broadway in A Home Away from Home and appeared at the Lincoln Center in the cast of King Lear.
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Bruce Davison’s four-decade career has included everything from Shakespeare to “Seinfeld.” Making his professional stage debut in 1966 as Jonathan in Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Bad at the Pennsylvania Festival Theatre, he appeared on Broadway in 1968 in the role of Troilus in Tiger at the Gates at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre.
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